Cuthbert Bardsley

Cuthbert Killick Norman Bardsley(28 March 1907 – 9 January 1991) was the Anglican Bishop of Coventry from 1956 to 1976.

He was born on 28 March 1907, the younger son of a Church of England canon. He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford.

Ordained Deacon in 1932, he began his career in the East End, as a Curate at Barking, then as Rector of St Mary Magdalene Woolwich, and was created Provost of Southwark in 1944. He became Bishop suffragan of Croydon in 1947, transferring to the more senior See of Coventry in 1956, a post he was to hold for 20 years.

Bardsley was appointed CBE in 1952, an honorary DD of Oxford University in 1957, a Chaplain of the Order of St John and an honorary DLitt of Warwick University in 1976.

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